PITTSBURGH, PA — One moment can change lives forever. On Aug. 9, a driver ran a red light at the intersection of Glass Run and Baldwin roads in the city’s Hays section and struck motorcyclist Hadi Tebah.
He was wearing high quality protective gear, a full face helmet and a safety vest but still was nearly killed by the force of the impact. The 2024 graduate of Taylor Allderdice High School in Squirrel Hill suffered a traumatic brain injury and faces a protracted recovery.
The Baldwin resident who was driving the car that struck Tebah faces a DUI charge in connection with the crash.
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Tebah had planned to begin fall semester pre-law classes at the University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg. Those plans now, tragically, are on hold.
The crash is a bitter blow to absorb for the Tebah family, who are Syrian refugees who fled the war and resettled in Pittsburgh in 2016.
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But rather than discuss their current tragic hardships, they preferred to commend the first responders from Pittsburgh Firehouse No. 20 and the hospital workers who kept Hadi from dying.
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The Tebah family responded to a Patch request for comment with this statement: “We are very grateful to the first responders and the trauma team at the hospital who saved Hadi’s life, and we are all praying for his recovery.”
Lisa Kaufman, a friend who started a GoFundMe donation page to benefit the family, told Patch this: “More than two weeks after the crash, they are still devastated and reeling.”
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